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> Hello All,
> I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be used
> also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB drives and

UFS works perfect on my 6*500GB gstriped volume. RAID5 will be OK but for 
large files, for small files writes will be suboptimal (but not reads)